Wasting Money to Become an Immortal-Chapter 159: System assisted

"Che, those kids. Don’t they know that they’ve wasted a free lesson on refining from one of the best alchemists?"

"You can’t help it, they aren’t smart enough to realize that their time would have been better spent listening to him instead of rashly trying to refine on their own. They are impatient as kids their age should be."

"Though the one person that did listen...I don’t think that he will get much use out of it."

The elders that came from the various sects naturally recognized Shen Qing Feng’s true intentions, but...

Elder Wang and Yao Fu knitted their brows when they heard this.

They had also seen that Lin Fan was the only one that listened to the explanation that Shen Qing Feng gave, but...they knew that Lin Fan was not someone that knew anything about refining pills.

So even if he listened to Shen Qing Feng’s explanation, it was clear that he wouldn’t be able to use it. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

That was what the others noticed as well, so that was why they were indirectly making fun of him. After all, his reputation as a prodigal had spread during this time and many people knew about him.

They didn’t have a good impression of him it seemed.

But Elder Wang and Yao Fu remained silent since they had never expected anything in the first place.

Well, Yao Fu did expect a bit, but he knew that it was a long shot.

So they just let him do whatever he wanted.

Lin Fan was their sect’s god of wealth, so it wasn’t as if he was the one that they had expected to win the tournament for them. Instead, they turned to look at Hua Gang Yu who was hard at work refining.

I just ignored all the buzzing that came from around me and focused on the cauldron in front of me.

I felt the same way as them since I knew that it would be very unlikely that I would win this tournament in the first place.

However, it wasn’t as if I would just give up without doing anything.

Instead of treating this as a place where I had to do my best to rank high, I was treating this as an experience.

Since I had no idea what the ’al’ part of alchemy even was, I would just try to do the refining like everyone else was. It was my chance to get some experience with this.

I had also observed everyone around me as they refined their crystal and had a general idea of what to do. So I raised my hand and gathered my flames in my palm, while holding the crystal in the other hand.

But the moment that the flames appeared, there was a commotion that was caused.

"Ah!"

Boom!

There were several explosions that came from around me.

I was surprised to hear these explosions and when I saw what happened, I saw that there were people with shattered crystals and faces covered in soot. It seemed like they had failed their refinement somehow, though I had no idea how it happened.

That was until they all turned to look in my direction with bitter looks.

Or more precisely, they looked at the flames that were in my hands.

When I looked at my hand, I found that there were some extra flames that were there.

I was surprised to see this, but I quickly figured out what these flames were.

These were flames that had been attracted to my flame law flames. These were flames that came from the people that were refining near me.

There was a reason why they had been put at the edge of the square just like me.

So when they lost control of their flames and had their flames attracted by my flame laws, their refinement failed and their cauldrons exploded.

That was why they were looking at me with bitter looks.

Still, there was nothing that I could do about it.

In the crowd...

"Those are flame laws..."

"How can he use flame laws at his level?"

"This can’t be right, flame laws at such a low level of cultivation? What kind of a genius is this?"

They had all thought of me as waste, but now that I brought out the flame laws, they had no choice but to treat me differently.

However, I didn’t pay any attention to them as I focused on the refining.

Ignoring all the noise, I brought the flames towards the cauldron along with the crystal.

It was just that before I could put the two things in, there was a notification that popped up.

"System’s quest guidance has been activated. Now analyzing..."

"Huh?" I was taken aback when I saw this before asking, "System, what is the meaning of this?"

The system didn’t answer me as the ’now analyzing’ notification remained in front of me.

I had to wait there for a minute before that notification disappeared and the system spoke again.

"Optimal refining method has been analyzed. The necessary steps will be displayed now. Host, please follow the guidance of the system for optimal refinement."

I was even more surprised by the things that suddenly appeared in my vision.

It was a bunch of detailed steps as to what I had to do for optimal refinement of this Refining Crystal.

But I didn’t follow the instructions right away as there was something that I had to ask, "System, why did it take you so long to analyze this in the first place? Shouldn’t this be easy for you?"

To my surprise, the system actually gave a sigh before saying, "This refining method was too low level that the system had to fix all of the errors with it. It took longer than expected, but the effects have been improved by 1325%."

"Eh? Isn’t that a bit too much?" I couldn’t help asking.

But the system remained silent in response.

Well, it wasn’t as if it was a bad thing if I stood out because of it. After all, my mission was to increase my reputation right now.

So it would be good if they recognized my skills.

With that, I started following the instructions that the system gave me.